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_ 3 _ October 3, 2002 Having a controlled distribution facility, for the patients, the risk of being in violation would be none and not too much concerns on whether all 650+ patients are in compliance because they are growing it at the location of their choice and not the States. (saves taxpayer's money and government time in unnecessary litigation and investigations.) There are coops doing this, I asn not suggesting that we do this also, but there is some success in the distribution process within medical marijuana states, with no interruption at the county and state levels. I want to express to you, that Hawaii is a Health State. I take pride in saying that because of my personal connections to the Department of Health here in Kona. You need to understand that there are just as effective ways of consuming cannabis besides smoking it. We cook with it, we have tea from it, and we make butter with it, oils with it. I am sure I speak on behalf of hundreds of patients, if there were an opportunity to grow enough medicine so we could eat it and drink it instead of smoking it, we would. The limit the current law puts on us hinders the medical patients from achieving a more healthy way of consuming cannabis. Exaxrxple, it would take about a half ounce of usable medicine to achieve llb of butter, we know lIb of butter does not last long, once used to make butter the cannabis is no longer usable.. No one patient I know can possibly sacrifice half once for butter without an interruption of usable medicine, with these types of restrictions put on us now Enforcing such a small amount for us to possess only pushes legitimate users back to the black market, when supplies have been exhausted, one which I believe patients don't like to utilize and support.. As you can see this is an attempt to work closely with you and your department to effectively keep this program running with fewer and fewer liability, please keep an open mind when reviewing correspondence and ideas, as there are responsible medical users. I look forward for your response and I also thank you again for your time you have dedicated to this issue with me and behalf of many concerned patients. erel~ ~ Rhon obison Enclosures cc: Hawaii County Council Member Dominic Yagong Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd Jaynes Arakaki -Chairman Aaron Chung Gary Safarik Julie Jacobson Nancy Pisicchio J. Curtis Tyler III Leningrad Elarionoff Keith Kamita - NED Administrator Herman Moore, Deputy Director -Law Enforcement Jack Schweigert, Esq. 73 4]59 KAl1AW.1 YI,ACli KAILt3r\ KONA, tIA~~AII 96740-A408 P{IONIC: SOR-325-1661